Interesting license. It makes no mention about use, redistribution, attribution or anything. I don't know enough about Canadian copyright law to see if that allows all use or bars all non-personal use. You might want to quickly confirm on legal-talk before uploading.
Corey On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Matthew Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > Corey > Here's the disclaimer page for the Kamloops data: > http://webserver.kamloops.ca/imf/sites/ … aimer.html > > Adam > You're right about the tags. i will clean up those before I go any farther. > I also won't get around to adding more data right away, besides I want to > hear everyone's opinions first. > > Either of you have an opinion on a good GPS that plays well with OSM? > > Thanks for replying. > > > > -- Matthew Buchanan > -- Kamloops, BC > > > On 29 July 2011 15:25, Adam Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You've probably seen my name come up quite often in the Kamloops area, >> so I will introduce myself a bit. I did the NRN import (government >> roads) for Kamloops, but I live in Chilliwack. It took a great deal of >> time (about a week, I believe) to merge the NRN data with the data >> that was already existing in the area. I don't personally mind if you >> import a legally cleared source for the area, and will try to answer >> any questions you have about what I had imported. I believe Samuel >> Longiaru lives near Kamloops, so you should definitely hear his >> opinion before going too far. >> >> I've taken a look at some of the data you've imported, and my comment >> so far would be to clean up the tags. You have tags that aren't used >> in OSM, as well as tags that have all capital letters. If you could >> convert the tags to match the OSM standards, that would be great. Also >> delete tags that OSM doesn't want or need (like Shape_Area= and >> Shape_Leng=, etc) >> >> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features for an >> incomplete-but-most-of-what-you-need listing of key value tags. >> >> Adam >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Buchanan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello >> > I'm a new user to OSM and I've been enjoying it so far. I have done some >> > edits to various places in BC that I know well. I posed a question, seen >> > below at the OSM forum regarding data from the City of Kamloops that is >> > freely available. I received permission from the GIS Coordinator at the >> > City >> > to use whatever data I want . >> > http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=13208 >> > >> > I thought I'd discuss it on this list as well. So far I've only imported >> > a >> > subset of building outlines, trees, and parks. I went through the data >> > to >> > clean it up before I imported using JOSM. >> > >> > Are there any users from the Kamloops area here? >> > >> > -- Matthew Buchanan >> > -- Kamloops, BC >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-ca mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
